Sing a Happy Song
Friday, October 3, 2008 at 10:35AM About 17 minutes ago the House of Representatives, accord to Reuters, "passed a rule allowing debate and a final vote," on the newly pork-laden Wall Street Bailout Bill.
We can thank those wonderful, fiscally conservative Republicans in the House and a few ultra-liberal Democratic Representatives for not passing the trimmer version of the bill last week. In addition to adding pork, this new bill has grown in complexity (not a good sign in Washington). Last week's bill was 110 pages; this one is over 400. If the house doesn't pass the bill this time, a strong man won't be able to lift the next version.
There is every indication that there is more fun to come with the bailout bill, including the very real possibility that the house will again reject it, or not vote on it if passage does not seem assured. This will be immediately followed by the end of western civilization, when China forecloses on our loans, and has to be given the entire west coast. (And I did so love California, I wonder if they will change the name?)
All of that will have to wait. Today the staff of the café de Mello is going fishing. It is cloudy, with a high chance of rain, but I do not care. I hear trout calling my name.
Today I will not even be listening to the news, and to fill the void, I have created an End of the World Playlist which I share with you here:
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Title |
Artist |
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Woke up This Morning |
A3 |
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Eleanor Rigby |
The Beatles |
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We Didn't Start the Fire |
Billy Joel |
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No Man's Land |
Billy Joel |
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Fire It up |
Black Label Society |
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For What It's Worth |
Buffalo Springfield |
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The Road to Hell (Pt. 2) |
Chris Rea |
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Tell Me There's a Heaven |
Chris Rea |
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No Man's Land |
Eric Bogle |
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And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda |
Eric Bogle |
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Mad World |
Gary Jules |
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The Last Cowboy Song |
The Highwaymen |
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Cry (If You Want To) |
Holly Cole Trio |
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We Can't Make It Here |
James McMurtry |
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Dead Men Walking |
Janis Ian |
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God & the FBI |
Janis Ian |
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The Last Comeback |
Janis Ian |
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White Rabbit |
Jefferson Airplane |
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Pacing the Cage |
Jimmy Buffett |
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One Particular Harbour |
Jimmy Buffett |
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A Pirate Looks at Forty |
Jimmy Buffett |
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Volcano |
Jimmy Buffett |
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Desperation Samba (Halloween in Tijuana) |
Jimmy Buffett |
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Incommunicado |
Jimmy Buffett |
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Last Mango in Paris |
Jimmy Buffett |
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Cowboy in the Jungle |
Jimmy Buffett |
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Party at the End of the World |
Jimmy Buffett |
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Motherland |
Joan Baez |
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Play Me Backwards |
Joan Baez |
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Amsterdam |
Joan Baez |
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Stones in the Road |
Joan Baez |
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Dogs&Thunder |
John Gorka |
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Soldier After All |
John Gorka |
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Road of Good Intentions |
John Gorka |
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The Nagging Dark |
John Hiatt |
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Death by Misadventure |
John Hiatt |
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Back of My Mind |
John Hiatt |
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The Merry Minuet |
The Kingston Trio |
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Late John Garfield Blues |
Kris Kristofferson |
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The Pilgrim, Chapter 33 |
Kris Kristofferson |
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The Future |
Leonard Cohen |
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Closing Time |
Leonard Cohen |
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First We Take Manhattan |
Leonard Cohen |
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Democracy |
Leonard Cohen |
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Pancho and Lefty |
Merle Haggard/Willie Nelson |
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Who Are the Brain Police? |
The Mothers of Invention |
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It's the End of the World as We Know It |
R.E.M |
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Amerika V. 6.0 (The Best We Can Do) |
Steve Earle |
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The Revolution Starts Now |
Steve Earle |
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Istanbul (Not Constantinople) |
They Might Be Giants |
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Road Movie to Berlin |
They Might Be Giants |
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We Will All Go Together When We Go |
Tom Lehrer |
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So Long, Mom (A Song for World War III) |
Tom Lehrer |
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The Vatican Rag |
Tom Lehrer |
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Poor, Poor Pitiful Me |
Warren Zevon |
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Lawyers, Guns and Money |
Warren Zevon |
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Genius |
Warren Zevon |
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Life'll Kill Ya |
Warren Zevon |
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Don't Let Us Get Sick |
Warren Zevon |
Reader Comments (1)
Every wrong done is a game plan
To that great and joyful day
Tell me there's a reason
Why I'm seeing what I do
Tell me there's heaven
Giles
Tell me there's a heaven!